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Around half past eight, I entered the Lindenpark and was quite surprised to see maybe 30 people inside. Was this real, or was I just dreaming? While I pondered whether punk was dead over my first beer of the evening, the disco ball in the concert hall fell from the ceiling. Also surreal. I felt somewhat like I was in a bad movie. When my friends arrived shortly after, we mused about music, punk rock, and the attendance. Slowly but surely, more and more people trickled in, so that by around 9:30 PM, the Fuckin´Faces kicked off in front of about 400 people.
The band immediately hit the gas, and after Butz's unique vocals were somewhat balanced, the band was a lot of fun. Fuckin´Faces has been around for 13 years now. It feels like even longer. Their records are all well-known in the German punk scene. The band should be familiar to any punk. Their songs stand out due to precise observations of everyday life, honesty, and wit. The sadness inherent in some songs is also moving live. The music always comes across powerful, fast, and catchy. In the Lindenpark, the band encountered a grateful audience. People sang along, moshed, and simply had fun. It promised to be a great evening. More and more people came into the Lindenpark, making it slowly but surely very warm and cramped.
When Dritte Wahl took the stage, there were about 600 people tightly packed in the club, who immediately started to mosh at the first notes. A mosh pit formed at the front, while others stood around and sang along to the songs. Dritte Wahl clearly had fun and played a set that was packed with hits. The first 10 songs were all bangers, followed by a slightly calmer phase before the gas pedal was pressed down again until the end. The sound was perfect. The band came across powerful and energetic. It was a huge punk party. Everywhere you looked, there were happy and smiling people enjoying their time with the band from Rostock. After their regular set, there were two long encores. During the encores, everything was given once more, as it could be the last song of the band that evening at any moment. The gig by Dritte Wahl was one of their best in a long time, and I was also there at FORCE ATTACK 2008. That performance, of course, could not be surpassed, but it was simply grand. The band gets better with each performance, year after year. I wonder how a band that is so good can still improve.